Senior Year Advanced Placement Literature Summer Book List 2006
During the summer, you are required to read: Where
I'm Calling From
by Raymond Carver; The Art of Fiction by John Gardner; and Runaway by Alice Munro. You should read one or two books from
the below list as well.
You will be required to bring either your books or detailed notes to class sometime during the first week of school. We will ask you to support your ideas with specific quotations from the text. When you return to school in the fall, you will be asked to write an essay or engage in another related activity to illustrate your reading and thinking of the books.
Abe,
Kobo, The Box Man
Ali,
Monica, Brick Lane
Allende,
Isabel, The House of the Spirits
Ambrose,
Stephen, Undaunted Courage
Angelou,
Maya, Heart of a Woman
Austen,
Jane, Sense and Sensibility or Persuasion
Auster,
Paul, The Book of Illusions
Baldwin,
James, The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It On the Mountain, or Giovanni's Room
Barker,
Pat, T he Regeneration Trilogy
Barnes,
Julian, Arthur and George
Booth,
Martin, Industry of Souls
Bowen,
Elizabeth, The Death of the
Heart
Bronte,
Emily, Wuthering Heights
Burgess,
Anthony, A Clockwork Orange
Camus,
Albert, The Stranger, or The Fall
Carroll,
James, An American Requiem
Cather,
Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chabon,
Michael, The Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Danticat,
Edwidge, Krik? Krak!
Davies,
Robertson, The Deptford Trilogy
Dickens,
Charles, Great Expectations or Bleak House
Eco,
Umberto, The Name of the Rose
Erdrich,
Louise, Tracks
Fadiman,
Anne, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (nonfiction)
Farrell,
J.G., The Siege of Krishnapur
Faulkner,
William, As I Lay
Dying, or Intruder in the Dust
Flaubert,
Gustav, Madame Bovary
Foer,
Jonathan Safran, Everything
is Illuminated
Forster,
E. M., Passage to India
Fowles,
John, The Magus, or The French Lieutenantıs Woman
Franzen,
Jonathan, The Corrections
Frazier,
Charles, Cold Mountain
Gordimer,
Nadine, Burgherıs Daughter
Hardy,
Thomas, The Return of the
Native
Hawking,
Stephen W., A Brief History of Time
Hegi,
Ursula, Stones from the
River
Heller,
Joseph, Catch-22
Hesse,
Herman, Demian
Hulme,
Keri, The Bone People
Ishiguro,
Kazuo, Never Let Me Go
Irving, John, Widow for One Year
Joyce,
James, A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka,
Franz, The Trial
Kerouac,
Jack, On the Road
Kidder,
Tracy, Mountains
Beyond Mountains
Kingston,
Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior
Kogawa,
Joy, Obasan
Krakauer,
Jon, Into Thin Air (nonfiction)
Kundera,
Milan, The Unbearable Lightness
of Being
Laurence,
Margaret, The Stone Angel
Lawrence,
D.H. , Sons and Lovers
Laxness,
Haldor, Independent
People
Lee,
Chang-Rae, Native Speaker
Lethem,
Jonathan, Motherless Brooklyn
Malamud,
Bernard, The Fixer
Marquez,
Gabriel Garcia, Love
in the Time of Cholera
Martel,
Yann, Life of Pi
McCarthy,
Cormac, All the Pretty
Horses or The Crossing
McCullough,
David, John Adams
Morrison,
Toni, Song of Solomon
Mulisch,
Harry, The Assault
Murikami,
Haruki, Kafka on the Shore
Nemirovsky,
Irene, Suite Francaise
O'Brien,
Tim, Going After Cacciato
Ondaatje,
Michael, Anilıs Ghost
Olson,
Tillie, Tell Me a Riddle and
other stories
Ozick,
Cynthia, Heir to the
Glimmering World
Pamuk,
Orhan, Snow or My Name is Red
Proulx,
E. Annie, Shipping News
Pynchon,
Thomas, The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow or Mason Dixon
Robinson,
Marilynne, Gilead
Roth,
Henry, Call It Sleep
Roth,
Philip, American Pastoral or Human Stain
Rushdie,
Salman, Midnigh''s
Children
Russo,
Richard, The Risk Pool
Saramago,
Jose, Blindness
Sacks,
Oliver, An Anthropologist on
Mars
Silko,
Leslie Marmon, Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovitch
Spark,
Muriel, The Finishing SchoolSteinbeck, John, East of Eden
Swift,
Graham, Waterland
Tan,
Amy, The Hundred Secret Senses
Toibin,
Colm, The Master
Troung,
Monique, The Book of Salt
Unsworth,
Barry, Sacred Hunger
Wharton,
Edith, The Age of Innocence
Wharton,
William, Birdy
Whitehead,
Colson, The Intuitionist
Wideman,
John Edgar, Philadelphia
Fire
Winterson,
Jeannette, Oranges Are
Not The Only Fruit
Wolfe,
Tom, The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wright,
Richard, Native Son
Revised
May 2006